Upton Sinclair Quotes

To Jurgis the packers had been the equivalent to fate; Ostrinski showed him that they were the Beef ...

They could tell the whole hateful story of it, set forth in the inner soul of a city in which honor ...

They were the triumphant and insolent possessors; they had a hall, and a fire, and food and clothing...

A wonderful privilege it was to be thus admitted into the soul of a man of genius, to be allowed to ...

In the face of all his handicaps, Jurgis was obliged to make the price of a lodging, and of a drink ...

All of this might seem diabolical, but the saloon-keeper was in no wise to blame for it. He was in t...

They would tell you that governments could not manage things as economically as private individuals;...

The gates of memory would roll open—old joys would stretch out their arms to them, old hopes and dre...

Hitler was calling upon Almighty God to give him courage and strength to save the German people and ...

Day after day he roamed about in the arctic cold, his soul filled full of bitterness and despair. He...

Was it permitted to believe that there was nowhere upon the earth, or above the earth, a heaven for ...

They wish to build a new and better world, and I would be glad if they could succeed, and if I saw a...

It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understandi...

In the evening I came home and read about the Messina earthquake, and how the relief ships arrived, ...

...the priests of all these cults, the singers, shouters, prayers and exhorters of Bootstrap-lifting...

Military men say that troops can stand twenty percent losses; more than that, they go to pieces. But...

Do not let other people invade your personality. Remember that every human being is a unique phenome...

This melodrama differed from others in that it was not written, it was to be played impromptu, and o...

Here was one more difficulty for him to meet and conquer.

All art is propaganda. It is universally and inescabably propaganda; sometimes unconsciously, but of...

What they wanted from a hog was all the profits that could be got out of him; and that was what they...

In the twilight, it was a vision of power.

I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.

She was part of the machine she tended, and every faculty that was not needed for the machine was do...

Say the very simplest and most obvious things, say them as often as possible, and put into the sayin...